Jam Quotes - Page 6

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song.

Your place is with me. It always will be. -Jem Carstairs

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it

When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail. [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus, Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

Jamaica is one of the most musically influential nations in the world. Throughout the entire globe, there are pockets that are constantly in touch with what goes on in the dancehall community, from Germany to Japan, to different parts of Africa like Ghana.

There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

The Pope is guarded by the Swiss guard who stand proudly in pajamas and silly hats.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.